I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.

In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

Life's but a day at most.

Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

The sinful emotions are stirred most deeply by self-love.